Cantonese Sentence Breakdown
        
                     
            
              to do
            
            
              to make
            
            
              to produce
            
            
              to write
            
            
              to compose
            
            
              to act as
            
            
              to engage in
            
            
              to hold (a party)
            
            
              to be
            
            
              to become
            
            
              to function (in some capacity)
            
            
              to serve as
            
            
              to be used for
            
            
              to form (a bond or relationship)
            
            
              to pretend
            
            
              to feign
            
            
              to act a part
            
            
              to put on appearance
            
            
              to fight
            
            
              to kill
            
            
              to trick
            
            
              to have sex
            
         
        
                     
            
              to return (to)
            
            
              to revert to
            
            
              to restore
            
            
              to go back
            
            
              to come back
            
         
        
        
                     
            
              the usual; the standard; often used in ordering meals where it means the standard or normal quantity or dish(s)
            
            
              meal(s) is requested
            
         
        
                     
            
              thing
            
            
              matter (Cantonese)
            
            
              see also 乜嘢miēyě [乜嘢]
            
            
              a derogatory way to refer to a person
            
            
              heroin
            
         
        
                     
            
              early
            
            
              prior
            
            
              former
            
            
              in advance
            
            
              first
            
            
              for now
            
            
              ancestor
            
            
              pioneering
            
            
              only then